Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:23:24 +0000 From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> To: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any suggestions for a layer 3 load ablancer for 12, as relayd doesnt work anymore Message-ID: <3D5F990E-5E0E-4B5C-9D9B-C0A1C1F7EDCB@exonetric.com> In-Reply-To: <E1gj4tQ-000MGi-0H@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>
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> On 14 Jan 2019, at 16:15, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> wrote: > > So, until the middle of this afternoon I was, doing my load balancing using > relayd from ports and PF. My own fault for not checking, but I upgraded > one of the firewall pair to 12 and then discovered that the relayd port is > no longer available. > > Am now puzzling over solutions to this - I dont really want to stay on > 11 forevere. Moving to OpenBSD to get their PF and relayd is a bit of > an uncomfortable idea as we gain a lot from having one OS everywhere that > people know, so does anyone have any suggestions ? > > PF round robin is not good enough for this as I have some dynamic problems > which indicate when a node is up or down. Relayd will check these, but the > basic PF wil not as far as I know. > > What do other people do ? Use HAproxy for basic load balancing and Traefik for more sophisticated usage. Not sure how you get seamless failover with either though. That was the nice thing about relayd/PF - Markhelp
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